DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Firebolt vs. Galaxybase vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Firebolt vs. Galaxybase vs. ToroDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.firebolt.io

galaxybase.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.firebolt.io

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2008

2020

2017

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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